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Filed under: Teas , Whisky , Recipes , Fruit , America , Spirits , Ingredient Spotlight , Guilty Pleasures , Summer Over the past few summers, cherry-based cocktails have become something of a signature for me, to the point whereupon being proposed to Read More...
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Filed under: Beer , Cocktails , Slashfood Ate , America , Spirits , Non-alcoholic , Holidays , Summer It's only July 3rd and my foodie forefathers have already dished out plenty of Independence Day eats in such posts as American Flag Cakes and Delicious Read More...
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Filed under: Coffee , Vodka , Magazines , Cocktails , Spirits , Liqueurs My fashion-forward roommate reads Nylon Magazine , and I was flipping through it the other day when I came across the drink of the month: the Grapes of Wrath martini. The Grapes Read More...
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It’s been quiet around here recently. Very quiet.
In case anyone was quietly wondering if I’d gone on the wagon and lost all interest in this thing, let me knock away that idea right away. Instead, I’ve been busy with another project Read More...
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…as did my guidance counselor, while dissuading me from pursuing anything ambitious in life.
Now, apparently the San Francisco Chronicle thinks so, too — see, it’s right there next to the byline: “Special to the Chronicle“. Read More...
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Okay, it’s been a while since I mentioned the upcoming Mixology Monday schedule, and considering the line of e-mails in my inbox from bloggers patiently tapping their feet, this hasn’t gone unnoticed. My apologies for the delay, but now I Read More...
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I’ve found myself falling into a cocktail rut lately — and it’s not just a defensive posture from drinking so much apricot brandy. Relatively minor, as these things go, but it’s been a bit more of a challenge to come up with an Read More...
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Okay, I have to stop now.
Call me a failure if you must, but I wasn’t able to power through every single one of the approximately 30 apricot-brandy cocktails that were submitted for the latest round of Raiders of the Lost Cocktail. I’m sorry Read More...
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Now that the comments sections are filling up both at The Spirit World and here for Raiders of the Lost Cocktail, perhaps its time I put my own drink on the line.
To recap: this month we’re mixing with apricot brandy, digging out some old (and new) Read More...
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Before I’m accused of being unspeakably lame for blogging about a cocktail that: has been featured on the menu of one of the world’s most talked-about cocktail bars for the better part of a year, and
has already had more than its fair share Read More...
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Just a quick word of greetings to folks following the link over from the Boston Globe.
As every self-respecting cocktail geek knows, Boston is one of the most vibrant cities in the current cocktail renaissance. Which makes it all the more flattering to Read More...
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Just a quick word before I move on: viruses suck.
Now that I’ve explained my absence from posting for much of the past week, I’ll note that while I was under the weather the San Francisco Chronicle scooped me on a topic I’ve been really Read More...
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Just as I was preparing for Mixology Monday came a reminder that I have another blog event I need to step up for: the third installment of Raiders of the Lost Cocktail.
Launched at The Spirit World in late 2007, the Raiders event addresses cocktail ingredients Read More...
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It’s snowing.
That may not sound like a big deal to those of you in places that actually have winter, but here in Seattle, it doesn’t happen all that often. This winter, however, we’ve seen snow more than usual (including, memorably, on Christmas Day), Read More...
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There were a lot of things I wish I’d blogged about in 2007 but never got around to; here’s one of them. Last summer, while wandering the hallowed halls of eGullet’s Spirits & Cocktails forum, I came across a post in the apricot brandy thread about Read More...
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